Yup, insurance is a con; I am 'obliged' to have farm public liability insurance - 10 million at a cost of around £600 a year. Never claimed on it and unlikley ever to have to - nobody comes here!! It is all based on the fear of 'what if..'

Thanks to Nutty for her company and coming up Afan Argoed at short notice. This week I only blew up at 17.5 miles today and managed 20 in 2:26 so better than the last few weeks. Compared to even last Jan things are going pants. Seeing as my marathons always go far worse than my training I could be in for a kicking in Snowdon.

Oh bugger, long post on how wonderful running without pain and in sunshine is, and how great it must be to have a freezer full of home produced pork, and I've pressed some random combination of keys which has deleted the lot! Don't even know what I did wrong either, bugger.

Ah well - run, breakfast and email/forum time over, bet get on and see if I can find a way to make teaching the English of population density statistics anything other than deathly boring.This is going to be tricky...

I did the XC. Did just over a min faster than last year and finished ahead of some people I was behind last year. I let myself down in the last 1 to 2 k. Should have kicked for home but did not have the confidence to do so. Still, with my legs tired and most of my recent training having been pants I am not dissatisfied.

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